Education as a Major Social Institution

1. Education as a Major Social Institution Prepared by: Parrado, Charo

3. Education • in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another

4. Purpose of Education • Intellectual Purposes • to teach basic cognitive skills • to transmit specific knowledge • to help students acquire higher-order thinking skills

5. Purpose of Education • Political Purpose • To inculcate allegiance to the existing political order • To prepare citizens who will participate in the political order • To help assimilate diverse cultural groups into a common political order • To teach children the basic law of society

6. Purpose of Education • Social Purpose • To socialize children into various roles, behaviors, and values of the society.

7. Purpose of Education • Economic Purpose - to prepare students for their later occupational roles.

8. Function of Education • Technical/ Economic Function - refers to the contribution of school to the technical or economic development and needs of the individual, the institution, the local community, the society and the international community.

9. Function of Education • Human/ Social Function - refer to the contributions of schools to human development and social relationships at different levels of the society.

10. Function of Education • Political Function - refer to the contribution of schools to the political development at different levels of society.

11. Function of Education • Cultural Functions - refers to the contribution of schools to the cultural transmission and development at different levels of society.

12. Function of Education • Education Function - refers to the contribution of schools to the development and maintenance of education at the different levels of society.

13. Manifest and Latent Function of Education

14. Manifest Functions • the open and intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution.

15. Socialization - students from kindergarten through college schools teach students the student-roles, specific academic subjects, and political socialization. • Social Control - schools are responsible for teaching values. School teach conformity by encouraging young people to be good students, conscientious, future workers and low-abiding citizens.

16. Transmitting culture - schools transmit cultural norms and values to each new generation.  It plays, as well, an important process in the assimilation of new immigrants.  Immigrants learn the dominant cultural vales, attitudes, and behaviors so that they can be productive members in their new society

17. Promoting social and political integration - education serves the latent function of promoting political and social integration. • Agent of change - education can stimulate or bring about desired social change.

18. Latent Function • the hidden, unstated and sometimes unintended consequences of activities within an organization or institution.

19. Restricting some activities - in our society there are laws that require children to attend school or complete a primary and secondary education. • Matchmaking and production of social networks - because school brings together people of similar ages, social class and race, young people often meet future marriage partners and develop social networks that may last for many years

20. Creation of generation gap - students may learn information in school that contradicts beliefs held by their parents or their religion

21. Functions of School as stated by Calderon • Conservation Function - the school conserves and preserves through its libraries and other devices recorded accumulated experiences of the past generations.

22. Instructional function - the main concern of the school is to pass on the accumulated experiences of the past generations to the incoming generations.

23. Research Function • The school conducts research to improve the old ways of doing things or to discover hitherto unknown facts or systems to improve the quality of human life.

24. Social Service Function - one justification for a particular school to exist is to render some kind of social service in the place where it is located.

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